I am spooling a file from oracle and trying to delete the last line of the spooled file which I am unable to do.
Problem is that this file can have multiple records each time and I have no way of knowing how many because the amount can vary. I had an idea of using a while loop to read the... (1 Reply)
I am trying deleting lines from a text file using sed..
sed '/OBJECT="ABC/{N;N;N;d; }'
will do if i have to delete lines starting with Object and next 3 lines
but I was looking for a way to delet lines starting with OBJECT and all the lines till it reaches a blank lines ..or it reaches a... (8 Replies)
Dear Friends
myself Avinash working in bash shell
The problem goes like this
I have a file called work.txt
assume that
first colum=mac address
second colum= IP
third colum = port number
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00:12:23:34 192.168.50.1 2
00:12:23:35 192.168.50.1 5... (2 Replies)
I have a log file that I am processing. This contains messages from and to a server (requests and responses).
The responses to requests may not be in order i.e. we can have a response to a request after several requests are sent, and in some error cases there may not be any response message.
... (2 Replies)
Friends, I am executing this command in solaris sar -d 3 3 | awk 'NR > 2 { if ($1 !~ /,.+/) print }' | egrep -v "nfs|device" . Now i want to delete the last two lines of my output as they are records of average which i don't want. can some one pls give me some idea on how to proceed. (7 Replies)
We have a server that logs transactions to a file. I want to write a script that will delete the first 50 lines of the file daily without renameing the file or moving the file. (8 Replies)
Hello, im using ex to manipulate some text. Im trying to delete all the lines except those on which a certain regex can be found.
the important part of the script:
ex temp << 'HERE'
g/regex/p
HERE
this command prints the lines I want to end up with, but it doesnt delete the others.... (2 Replies)
Hi guys
I have a text file in the following format
what i would like ot do is iterate through the file deleting the lines containing only numbers. I have googled this and have been unable to find any help ( maybe its my search terms)
so if any one an give me a heads up i would... (3 Replies)